Starting today, you can create cross-region read replicas for Amazon Aurora. This allows you to serve read traffic from your users in different geographic regions and increases your application’s responsiveness.
New pumps can detect a clog and automatically trigger clean up
Water technologists at Xylem have developed what they are calling “the world’s first pumping system with integrated intelligence.”
WaterWorld Weekly Newscast, May 30, 2016
A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for May 30, 2016.
Aclara wins contract with Missouri American Water
The contract will provide services to approximately 340,000 homes and businesses throughout the region.
Global demand for desalination to rise each year until at least 2020
Desalination capacity is expected to grow by 8 per cent annually to 140 million m3/d by 2020, new research shows.
BBC micro:bit goes on sale today for £12.99
The BBC micro:bit educational controller module is to be commercially available in the UK for £12.99. Distributor element14 has a 15 month contract to manufacture and distribute micro:bit in the UK. It also has plans to sell the product overseas at some stage. Element14 is announcing pre-order facilities for consumers and will be the exclusive …
NI runs free aerospace technology forum in Reading
The Aerospace & Defence Forum 2016 hosted by National Instruments takes place on Tuesday 14th June at the Royal Berkshire Conference Centre, Madejski Stadium, Reading, UK. It is a free-to-attend conference presenting trends and technologies for aerospace, defence, security and space systems. The programme includes: Morning keynote address from Dr. Marco Lisi, manager and scientist, …
SemI40 kicks off to develop robot factories
Today, the Euros 62 million European research project SemI40 (“Power Semiconductor and Electronics Manufacturing 4.0”) – in which 37 partners from five countries will carry out research into developing autonomous factories – was launched. SemI40 will focus on “smart production” and “cyber-physical production systems” in the next three years with secure data traffic playing a …
Camper van query has UK-made answer
I was asked to have a look at a problem in a camper van this weekend. The van has a sink, and the tap on the sink combines a water valve plus a switch that turns on a remote electric pump to raise water up to the tap. The tap is made by Whale – …
Battery fuel gauge chips include anti-clone security
Maxim has introduced battery energy measuring (‘gas gauging’) chips with SHA-256 anti-cloning authentication. The firm has developed its own gauging algorithm that does needs no host interaction. “ModelGauge m5 fuel gauges include an algorithm that converts raw measurements such as battery voltage, current, and temperature into accurate state-of-charge, absolute capacity in mAhr, time-to-empty, and time-to-full …